Word: decking
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...indication of Harvard's current preoccupation with renovations came when Dean of the College John B. Fox Jr. '59 dropped by the Crimson building this summer for a visit. Emerging onto the sun-deck at 14 Plympton St., the 6-ft. 7-inch administrator immediately hopped up on a narrow ledge to examine the Crimson's rather ancient roof. "It's in a lot better shape than most of the Houses," the dean said, shaking his head...
...wife Virginia first proposed it to her husband, whose previous ventures had included a Hovercraft expedition on the White Nile. Fiennes met Burton, a former army corporal, at a party, and he agreed to go along on a training mission to the Arctic in 1977. An advertisement for a deck hand turned up Anthony Bowring, a seaman, who tracked down a 27-year-old polar ship. Bowring then persuaded his father's insurance firm, C.T. Bowring, and a New York insurance company to buy the ship and help sponsor the expedition. It was renamed for the founder...
Rolling through the viridian Kentish countryside, there is time for a leisurely lunch, a free, staunchly English repast designed perhaps to fortify tender turns against the Gallic frivolities to follow. At Folkestone, passengers board a reserved veranda deck on the Sealink cross-channel ferry. In 90 minutes passengers are ashore at the great French port of Boulogne...
Along with Lacoste alligators and chino trousers, Sperry Top-Sider shoes have come to epitomize the popular preppie look. Invented in the 1930s by a Connecticut yachtsman to help sailors keep their footing on slick decks, the white-soled, dark brown deck shoes have become a favorite with landlubbers from Newport, R.I., to Newport, Calif., who wear them more for status than for safety...
...bomb pulverized the bandstand. It was 12:55. Said one of the 150 or so people who were attending the lunchtime concert: "Everything seemed to come up from the bottom of the bandstand and blow right into the air-bodies, instruments, everything. There were mangled bodies all over the deck chairs." The toll of the two grisly incidents: ten soldiers killed; 32 soldiers, two policemen and 21 civilians injured...